Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 771-773 , April 2006

Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Transplantation for Myocardial Regeneration

  • N. Ma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • Y. Ladilov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • A. Kaminski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • C. Piechaczek

      Affiliations

    • Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
    • ,
  • Y.-H. Choi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • W. Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • G. Steinhoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • ,
  • C. Stamm

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Rostock
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Christof Stamm, MD, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany

References 

  1. Stamm C , Westphal B , Kleine HD , et al.   Autologous bone marrow stem cell transplantation for myocardial regeneration after myocardial infarction . Lancet . 2003;361:45
  2. Wollert KC , Meyer GP , Lotz J , et al.   Intracoronary autologous bone-marrow cell transfer after myocardial infarction (the BOOST randomised controlled clinical trial) . Lancet . 2004;364:141
  3. Scheubel RJ , Zorn H , Silber RE , et al.   Age-dependent depression in circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting . J Am Coll Cardiol . 2003;42:2073
  4. Heeschen C , Lehmann R , Honold J , et al.   Profoundly reduced neovascularization capacity of bone marrow mononuclear cells derived from patients with chronic ischemic heart disease . Circulation . 2004;109:1615
  5. Ma N , Stamm C , Kaminski A , et al.   Human cord blood cells induce aniogenesis following myocardial infarction in NOD/scid-mice . Cardiovasc Res . 2005;66:45
  6. Murry CE , Soonpaa MH , Reinecke H , et al.   Haematopoietic stem cells do not transdifferentiate into cardiac myocytes in myocardial infarcts . Nature . 2004;428:664

 Supported in part by the German Minister of Research (BMBF FKZ 01ZZ0108) and the Minister of Economy of Saxony (SAB 7522/1193).

PII: S0041-1345(06)00062-5

doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.01.061

Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 771-773 , April 2006

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